How low can the Washington Times go? This low.

It’s already a low bar when discussing the journalistic ethics of a newspaper founded, and run, by a cult leader.

But today the Washington Times quite possibly lowered that bar even further into the ever-swirling cesspool that is the Republican propaganda machine.

Today, in a putative “news story,” the Washington Times flipped out, in rather bigoted and biased terms, over the fact that Kristin Beck, a former Navy SEAL who came out as transgender after leaving the military, has been doing presentations at a variety of events at various US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon.

Transgender former Navy SEAL Kristin Beck.

And you know how gullible spies and generals are. We simply must not permit “transgenders,” as the Washington Times so affectionately calls them (the term is “transgender,” and it’s an adjective, not a noun), to spread their insidious lies to our apparently easily-confused defense establishment.

If one transgender woman poses this much of a threat to the most expensive military the world has ever seen, then maybe we should all just pack it in and spend the money elsewhere.

One need only read the first five paragraphs to get the full flavor of the Times’ “report” by Bill Gertz:

I actually had to go back and make sure that this wasn’t an editorial — and if it were, it would still be rather outrageous. But this poses a “news” piece?

Oh, and if the Times really wants to go there, the biggest homo-lover at the Pentagon in the last 65 years was Bush-appointed Sec. Robert Gates, the man who personally oversaw the lifting of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. So, if you have a problem with it, go talk to the president you put in office.

Just to back up a moment. While the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military was lifted, a second ban still exists on transgender service members. It was under an entirely different section than the ban on gays. Beck, although only recently having come out as trans, has been doing a lot of very-public work trying to educate folks about who trans people really are. And the trans community couldn’t ask for a better spokesperson than a former Navy SEAL. It’s hard to question her patriotism, judgment, or motivation.

The Washington Times is right about one thing: Beck does pose a danger. To bigots.

John AravosisFollow me on Twitter: @aravosis | @americablog | @americabloggay | Facebook | Google+ | LinkedIn. John Aravosis is the former editor of AMERICAblog, which he founded in 2004. He has a joint law degree (JD) and masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown (1989); and worked in the US Senate, World Bank, Children's Defense Fund, and as a stringer for the Economist. Frequent TV pundit: O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, World News Tonight, Nightline & Reliable Sources. Bio, article archive.

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And then they add links to war porn galleries in the side-bar. Hard to guess what kind of people we’re dealing with here, huh? But what’s both amusing and telling is this:

“Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, among the most politically correct Pentagon chiefs of the past several decades, fueled the effort within the Pentagon
to integrate transgenders in May when he said the policy of banning
transgenders should be reviewed continually. The transgender drive is
the latest element of the Obama administration’s social engineering
within the U.S. military.“

Could anyone have made that any more propagandish? Used a couple of nutjob-bait terms in there – like “Politically correct” and “social engineering.”

To add insult to injury, there’s this:

“Ms. Beck, author of “Warrior Princess,” spoke to the DIA on June 18 as part of the intelligence agency’s annual Pride Month — formerly Gay Pride Month but now expanded to
include a host of sexually related terms, including transgenders. She received an award from DIA Director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn at the event.“

First off, nice sentence structure for a “newspaper.” So “transgenders” are reduced to being “terms”, not people? I mean, aside from being just incredibly inept writing, it comes out as calling people “terms.” WTF?

I see they also go with the old trope of Obama “imposing law”. Good Godfrey, they don’t even try to hide their propagandizing.

And this is what passes for right-wing “journalism”. Well, at least they mentioned her book. Not that regular readers of this crapsheet would ever buy it.

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